Paul Budnitz, Founder of Social Media Sensation Ello to Speak at Champlain

BURLINGTON, Vt., (Dec. 8, 2014) -- Paul Budnitz, founder of Ello, will be speaking at Champlain as part of the Build Your Own Business (BYOBiz) Speaking From Experience lecture series on Feb. 10, 2015 at 7 p.m. in Champlain's newly refurbished Alumni Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.

Budnitz is the serial entrepreneur who founded and built Kidrobot (a retailer of art toys) and Paul Budnitz Bicycles (luxury bicycles) before starting his latest venture Ello, the explosively growing social media site that people have called the "anti- Facebook," in that Ello accepts no ads and respects the privacy of its members. To assure that Ello always remains ad-free, Ello converted to a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC). A Benefit Corporation is a new kind of for-profit company in the USA that exists to produce a benefit for society as a whole—not just to make money for its investors. Learn more at https://ello.co/wtf/post/pbc

Calendar Listing: Paul Budnitz, founder of social media site Ello, will speak at Champlain College on Feb. 10, 2015 at 7 p.m. in Champlain's Alumni Auditorium, 375 Maple Street, Burlington, Vt. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Robert Bloch, Champlain BYOBiz Director, at rbloch@champlain.edu

About Champlain College

Founded in 1878, Champlain College is a small, not-for-profit, private college in Burlington, Vermont, with additional campuses in Montreal, Quebec and Dublin, Ireland. Champlain offers a traditional undergraduate experience from its beautiful campus overlooking Lake Champlain and over 60 online undergraduate and graduate degree programs and certificates. Champlain's distinctive career-driven approach to higher education embodies the notion that true learning occurs when information and experience come together to create knowledge. Champlain College is included in the Princeton Review's The Best 379 Colleges: 2015 Edition. Champlain was named a "Top-Up-and-Coming School" by U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges and is ranked in the top tier of 2014 Regional Colleges in the North. For more information, visit www.champlain.edu.